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It was the excuse that just wouldn’t wash (Peter Jenson writes). Chris Coleman last night made a grovelling apology to Real Sociedad after he turned up 90 minutes late for a press conference and blamed it on plumbing problems.

The former Fulham manager failed to arrive for a scheduled meeting with the media on Friday and then did not answer his phone as club officials tried to track him down. He gave the excuse that his washing machine had flooded his flat, but Marca, the Spanish sports paper, reported that he had been spotted in